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Viggo Mortensen - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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A talented and charismatic actor Viggo Mortensen, originally from New York City, was born on October 20, 1958. His parents were Dane and American, grew up in the countries of South America. Fluent in Spanish. He began his career on Broadway in the eighties. He received positive reviews for his images on the stage, critics singled out his performance.
Notable film appearances took place in the early nineties. He appeared on the same screen with Sean Penn in The Fugitive Indian, and also acted as a film partner for Al Pacino in Carlito's Way. For his characteristic appearance, the actor was popular as a romantic hero in the films Portrait of a Lady and Soldier Jane. Who knows how his acting career would have developed if not for the role of the warlike Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But the actor found it literally by accident, after Peter Jackson's refusal to shoot another actor, due to his young age, Mortensen got a role in the epic.
Quite mediocre is the adventure western Hidalgo. After three films of the blockbuster The Lord of the Rings, the actor twice starred with David Cronenberg in the films Justified Rigidity and Vice for Export. The second film with Viggo Mortensen turned out to be more impressive and famous. The brutal Russian bandit in his performance has caused a lot of admiration from the audience and critics. During the preparation, the actor traveled a lot across Russia in order to better imbued with the idea of ??the character.
Not forgetting the main roles of Viggo Mortensen in his previous films, Cronenberg again invites the actor to the film A Dangerous Method, four years after their last collaboration. In it, he embodied Sigmund Freud himself, and Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender joined him in the film. The depth of the doomed to survival character, thanks to the acting skills of Viggo Mortensen, could be seen in the film The Road. In total, the actor's track record includes more than fifty significant film roles, the viewer expects this list to grow.
Viggo Mortensen has blue eyes, naturally light hair, dark skin and medium lips. The shape of the face is rectangular, the forehead is medium, the hair is straight, hard. Viggo Mortensen changes his hair color, giving preference to dark. Viggo Mortensen has a large humped nose and a rectangular chin. Viggo Mortensen sometimes drops his mustache and beard. The actor is 180 cm tall and has tattoos.
